Package-tie.



No. 892,945. PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

J. J. DRAWE & W. J. TURNBULL.

PACKAGE TIE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 29,1007.

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Application filed July 29, 1307.

To all who-met may con/Jew:

-Be it known that we, I i Drawn and WALTER. TURNBU} ns of the -Umted States, rcsnhn it rlenns, in

v the parish of Orleans and Stu: e of Louisiuna.

have invented certain new and usciui iin rovements in Package-Ties; an d we do here y declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of th invention. such Ins will enable others skilled in the art to which 1t appertains to make and use the some.

Our invention relates to improrc-ments in package ties, and it has for its ohjcet to provide a tie of this character whicl'i shol no si'mpleend inexpensive to munutneturc, and Which'shall enable the package I rho quickly tied and untied at will, and which when tied will form. a "erfeot loo; knot which :ennol sli or work oose.

- ith theseend other objects in a ien; our res oi more fully described hereinafter and pedieuhirly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings .n, Figure 1 represents our tie in place upon n. package with the string applied thereto and tenured in e'finished knot.

dig. 2 repr .h r tie on an enlar ed seeie Slit particularity t re oonstr ctlon Wire forming our tie, is bent.

into whic' 3 reprw sents a modified form of our tie whet out he struck out of a single piece 0 t met at. Fig. 4 represents another moulicd lower of our tie made out of at single piece o? wire; as applied to a package and Fig. :5 represents u further modification.

Referring to the ecconn'mn forminp a. part of this epecii'icmion. A re resents t 1e body of our tie which prel'erubiy made from e single piece pro- 4 is C 9; running:

"n e vided with the eyeoi t and D. The arm i) re body A to form the bu and then over into the cu then formed by'oontin the wire frornthe crown ling of .1 hem wire, all as s lOWEi in Fig. and H approach nearer 0 the the other porions oi the urine of Letters Patent.

in practice it will he l'ound Patented July 7, 1908.

Serial No. 888,055.

similar to the correspondingparts just de-' scribed iU'Hl perform precisely the some functions. but the said parts are struck outof a single piece of sheet metal. As is well known rose skilled in the out of metal Working, a.

number of such tics can he inunufacured by a single stroke of at suitable die.

in. the modiiioution shown in Fig. 4, the structure preciselythe some as thut shown in Fig. except the eye or loop B is reoleccl by the modified fOIlll ol' loo formed by bonding the body portion hie over tscll to form the eye M and the stock .ortion M as shown. This form has the important advantage of permitting one end o the string or cord N to be fastened in the eye portion M and e bight ofthe suid string i to he slipped over the stock portion M into the eye portion M and then quickly 2d around the puckegc as shown In Fig. it will he seen that this constitutes an in'iportnnt udvuntuge und also on important feature of our invention.

The modified vlorm shown in Fig. 5, is precisely like the form disclosed in connection with Fig. 3, except both ends are made mike and provided with the zmns C and D. in this form we are enabled to form u look tie knot at one end as shown at Fig. 4- and to also form the some knot at theother end. Vie may also slip n hight of the cord, likewise shown in Fig. 4-, over one of the arms oi ilukos C or D.

in opcr iion, all the operator hu-s'to do is to securely fusion in any manner he chooses one end of the cord to one cud of our tie, to par-es the cord or string around the A go in any nu'inuer he chooses and then secure the other end of the cord either by jamming the some into the spoon L or .l/ of if tie, or by otherwise 'l'zretcning it. But quicker und more eonvei'iient to pass the cord over the arm p rtion of our tie, let it slip down to rhcreiwy l the crown portion then across the lower end of the tie and over the arm. D, and let it slip down into the locking siace L when a secure locking tie knot is l'ormed. The whole operation is capable of being done with much greater ease and in less time than it takes to tell it; and should the contents of the package become less and the tension of the cord thereby loosened the loops of the cord will still be held in place by the bulges E and H above described.

It will thus be seen that our device is exceedingly simple and certain in operation, and is very cheap to construct. In fact the form disclosed in Fig. 3 with an ordinary cutting die can be made almost at the cost of the metal it contains, for the reason that it may be made out of scrapmaterial, and the other forms with suitable machinery for bending the wire can be made out of wire with a costslightly exceeding the price of the wire. It therefore follows that the cost of this tie is trifling and that it can be easily thrown away by department stores, post-oflices and other users without a material loss to themselves.

Having now described our invention, what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I 1. A package tie composed of a sin le piece of metal and provided with a bodi y part; means at one end of the sameto which may be secured the end of a cord or string and a pair of arms at the other end extending towards the opposite end of the body part andprovlded with apex portions, and the bulges E and H, said arms being connected by a crown portion, and a space being left between said crown portion and the extreme lower end of said body portion into which the said cord may be jammed, substantially as described. pack piece of wire h ving a body part; means at each end of said body part for securing a cord or'string thereto, one of said securing means on one end comprising a pair of arms tie composed of a -single' sea-94a extending towards the opposite end of the body part and having bulge port-ions E and H, approaching said body part more closely than other portions of said arms; said wire also having a crown portion G, joining said arms, andleavin a space between the same and the said body part into which a-cord may be securely jammed, substantially as described.

3. A package tie composed of a single piece of wire and provided with a body part,- a means at one end for securing a cord there to, and a pair of arms at the other end ex-' tending towards said first mentioned end and joined by acrown portion, there being a space between the said portion and the lower end of said body portion into which the said cord may be jammed, substantially as described.

A package tie com osed of a single piece of wire having a l)0( y portion; a loop at one end to which. the end of a cord may be fastened and a pair of arms at the other end of said body extending towards the first mentioned end and each arm provided with a bulge portion and an apex portion and joined by a crown portion, there being a space between the said crown portion and the lower end of said body portion into which the said cord may be jammed, substantially as described 5. A ackage tie composed of a single piece of wire aving a body portion, and a pair of arms at each end joined by crown portions, there being spaces between the said crown portions and the ends of the body portion,

into which a cord may be jammed, substan- 4 tiallyas described.

In testimony whereof, we affix our signatures, in presence of two witnesses.

JULIUS J. DRAWE. WALTER J. TUE NBUT J l. Witnesses:

D. W. KEENE, W. W. YOUNG. 

